Not only are the movies based on comics but the movies have spawned media-tie-in novels. Halo and Indiana Jones have done this as well - not to mention the ever present World of War Craft (War Crack, to some). But are they worth checking out? Do these novels have the same merits the comics and [...]

Hi everyone! I’m a domestic engineer, romance novelist, cookbook author, freelance writer, recipe developer, and freebie fanatic. I hide out in the Pacific Northwest with my high school sweetheart and our two blueberry eyed baby boys, who all have me wrapped around their little fingers.
A song. I’d been writing romance novels forever, but never got [...]

‘Retreating with disgust is not the same as apathy’. So says one of the peripheral characters in Richard Linklater’s 1991 film, Slacker. This statement rings true for several of the artists involved in Take The Bassa With Sababa, an exhibition of Israeli comics and graphic novels, and for me as a curator it certainly hits [...]

Comics publisher Devil’s Due and Capcom have signed a deal to turn some of Capcom’s popular video games, starting With Bionic Commando And Lost Planet, into graphic novels.
The First In The Four-Property Deal Will Be Bionic Commando, Variety Reports, with writer Justin Marks hired on for writing duties.
Marks has been busy recently spinning pop culture [...]

TSB Bank Arena in Wellington resembled a movie set yesterday as sci-fi, fantasy and comic book fans flocked to the Armageddon Expo for make-believe and dress-up.
Young Star Wars wannabes mingled with freaky monsters and superheroes in supertight outfits. A life-size Doctor Who Dalek character was there, plus several stormtroopers from Star Wars.
Shannon Lambert was one [...]

Establishing a private equity fund as a founding partner is the objective of thousands of practitioners across the industry. For the fortunate few, success has involved talent, good timing and perseverance combined with industry growth that has supported the entry of new firms. With the market continuing to mature, what are the hurdles, and what [...]

“Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” the 1782 epistolary novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos, is one of the supreme works of world literature, though not the easiest thing to turn into an effective play Novel-Prize. That Christopher Hampton achieved this was not clear to me 20 years ago. The current New York revival, starring Laura Linney and [...]

A true-life crime led author Dara Horn to begin writing “The World to Come,” the choice for this year’s A Novel Idea … Read Together, the Deschutes Public Library System’s annual community reading event.
Events kick off today with a performance of excerpts from “Fiddler on the Roof” from the Obsidian Opera Company’s 2007 production of [...]

Monotherapy treatment with the triple angiokinase inhibitor(1) BIBF 1120 (planned tradename VARGATEF(TM)) offers promising efficacy and is well tolerated in patients with advanced, relapsed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to results from a phase II study in patients with lung cancer(2). Of particular note were results from a subset of 57 patients with ‘good [...]

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Trevor Immelman watched one last shot turn out better than he expected Saturday in the Masters, each one keeping him atop the leaderboard and Tiger Woods farther behind.
Immelman was headed for double bogey or worse on the 15th hole until his ball somehow stopped on a steep slope toward the pond, allowing [...]